[Bug 230287] key repeat rate not restored when usb keyboard hot plugged

[Paul B. Henson]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230287





--- Comment #5 from Paul B. Henson <henson acm org>  2010-05-21 05:27:53 ---
I'm currently running xorg server 1.7.6 with evdev 2.3.2 on my desktop.

I replicated this problem with those versions on my laptop, and then upgraded
my laptop to xorg server 1.7.7 and evdev 2.4.0 with no change in behavior. The
built in keyboard kept the repeat rate settings I configured, but the external
usb keyboard was reset to X defaults after being unplugged and plugged back in.

It's disappointing you can't replicate it :(, there must be something else
different between our systems. On the Gnome side they fixed it in their
keyboard preferences system so I assumed the same would hold true for KDE.

At this point I've implemented a workaround by adding a udev rule that fires
when the keyboard is plugged in and runs a script to set the repeat rate to my
preference. Bit of a kludge ;), but it helps keep me from going nuts.

On the multiple input devices front, from my perspective supporting different
pointer devices would provide more utility than multiple keyboards. I've got
both a touchpad and a mouse on my desktop, and on the mouse I need to remap the
pointer buttons. I'm using xinput to do that, I'm not even sure if KDE supports
that. The mouse gets reset to defaults on hotplug too <sigh>, so I added it in
to my udev kludge for now.

Thanks, let me know if you want me to try anything else.

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